The Murder of Hi Good

The Murder of Hi Good

The Murder of Hi Good is a true-crime revisionist western set in Northern California, 1870. It details the eventual murder of California’s most...

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Transposition of the Great Vessels

Transposition of the Great Vessels

Moving from Redding to Los Angeles, Roger and Lee Anne hope to make a better life. When their baby is born with a rare heart defect, they are...

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The Wash

The Wash

"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot the wash on...

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The Last Buffalo Hunt

The Last Buffalo Hunt

For five years, Schmitt and Lynch followed the buffalo hunt in the American West. Their fascinating portrait of a disappearing world contrasts...

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The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley

The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for...

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Duchamp Reality

Duchamp Reality

Set in an abandoned exurb in Iceland, the film is a semi-fictional portrait of local teenager "Gunnar" who is obsessed with serial killers. As the...

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Bowers Cave

Bowers Cave

In 1885 two boys in Southern California discover a cave of Chumash Indian artefacts in the San Martin Mountains on land that is now part of the...

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Jack ‘O’ Lantern

Jack ‘O’ Lantern

A folk-film directed by Lee Lynch and Christian Cummings about the mythological origins of Jack 'O' Lantern, from which the popular holiday trope...

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Everybody Needs a Rock

Everybody Needs a Rock

A short 16mm movie based on my childhood memories of attending a reading of Everybody Needs a Rock, by Byrd Baylor. It was the question and answer...

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Ovid’s Pomona

Ovid’s Pomona

Ovid's Pomona is film based on a Greek-myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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The Urban Leprechaun

The Urban Leprechaun

A modern fairy tale about the supposed "last Leprechaun". Directed by Lee Lynch and starring James Gibbons. Filmed in 1999 on Super 8mm.

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The Bee Hive

The Bee Hive

THE BEE HIVE (2000) is a Super 8mm (sound) haiku-film about the discovery of nature. Made as an experimental scholastic film to better convey the...

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